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Paul Erdmann Isert | |
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Date (from) | (Date to) | Event |
1756 | | Born (Brandenburg). |
November 1783 | | Employed by the Danish West India and Guinea Company as surgeon and botanist at Christiansborg, Gold Coast. |
1786 | | Concluded treaty with Krobo tribe, Gold Coast for Denmark. |
October 1786 | | Left the Coast when refused permission to travel inland at the invitation of the Asante king, Osei Kwame. |
November 1788 | | Returned with his bride of seven months and started a plantation (Frederiksnopel in Akuapen), hoping to make the slave trade redundant by growing the same products raised in the West Indies. |
21 January 1789 | | Died. |
His wife died on 25 Feb. Their daughter, born on 17 Feb, survived her mother by only three weeks. |
The Royal Danish Embassy to Ghana is on Dr. Isert Road, Accra. |